Wal-mart for PM?

From CBC.ca: "Wal-mart is closing a tire-and-lube garage in Gatineau where workers won a major victory last August when a Quebec arbitrator imposed a collective agreement on the company. The precedent-setting contract was the first ever forced on the Arkansas-based retailer by an outside agency. The agreement affected eight workers at the garage on Maloney Boulevard in Gatineau, across the river from Ottawa."

This is the second outlet that has won bargaining status for their members (the firs one in Jonquiere, Qc, was not forced by a labour board) and the second outlet that has been closed by Wal-mart. See a trend here?

Since Wal-mart came into Canada a bunch of years back, they have driven thousands of small businesses in the toilet and put thousands of people out of jobs. What did they replace them with? Mega-stores with the personality of a dead fish and low paying jobs with few benefits.

And let's not forget that the "Wal-mart effect" has forced the closure and merger of hundreds of small community hardware stores into like Canadian Tire and Rona.

Now, Wal-mart wants the government of Canada to give them a Class A banking permit. The people of Canada want the govt of Canada to tell Walmart to piss off.

Who speaks for Canada?

We'll see.